Example sentences of "it so [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she did not pull away , and when he moved nearer still , holding her as though she was infinitely fragile , and turned her so that she was fully in his arms , her head on his shoulder , he did it so slowly that Sally-Anne felt not fear , but reassurance . |
| 2 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 3 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 4 | The one who was sharing Tony 's bed — and sharing it so enthusiastically that neither of them heard Folly 's approaching footsteps until she walked right into the room . |
| 5 | This dynamic man had entered her life with an explosive force , and he had damaged her secure little world , altering it so drastically that she would never be the same Claudia who had happily spent her days and most of her evenings designing dresses for other girls to wear . |
| 6 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 7 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 8 | They do it so rarely that it is good for them . |
| 9 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 10 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 11 | Travel wholesaling is common practice today but Cooks pioneered it so successfully that they were issuing printed standard contracts to their agents by 1884 . |
| 12 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 13 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 14 | Dougal reached for it so quickly that he knocked over one of his candles . |
| 15 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 16 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 17 | The leading actor had believed in it so heartily that he had kicked it in mid-speech and got his foot embedded in it . |
| 18 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 19 | Ulam took his idea to Teller who developed and extended it so rapidly that the outlines of a practicable thermonuclear device were complete before the GEORGE shot ( 8 May 1951 ) ; this had been designed as part of the development programme for the classical Super which by that time had been junked . |
| 20 | Mrs Richards reached out and took Shelley 's hand , holding it so tightly that the nails dug into Shelley 's skin . |
| 21 | He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing — until he burst out laughing . |
| 22 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |
| 23 | I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it . |